Gordon R. Smith Kentucky Photoprints
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Smith, Gordon R.
- Dates:
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1994
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0.1 Cubic feet (1 box, 7 items)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0700
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Photographs from a project entitled "Kentucky Coal Country," in which photographer Gordon Smith concentrates on economic and social factors in Kentucky. The photographs document poverty, erosion of the land through strip mining, and other harsh realities in Kentucky.
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Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Consolidation Coal Company
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1885-1940s
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23 Cubic feet (99 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1007
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents the building, operation and daily life of coal mining communities in Kentucky, West Virginia and Ohio between 1911 and 1946. The collection is a valuable for the study of mining technology and the social conditions of the time period and regions.
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Bethlehem Steel Corporation
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1880-1993
bulk 1947-1980
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19 Cubic feet (66 boxes
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- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1242
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection consists of approximately 28,000 photographic negatives, slides, prints and other materials documenting Bethlehem Steel Corporation's iron ore mining operations. The photographs were taken by Richard "Jay" Angelo, a Bethlehem Steel Corporation photographer. The majority of the photographs depict Bethlehem's mining operations at its Cornwall and Morgantown, Pennsylvania mines. A smaller number of negatives document operations in western Pennsylvania, Kentucky, West Virginia, Michigan and Ontario. The negatives depict aerial views, blasting operations, tunneling, equipment and infrastructure, machinery, employees working, company personnel, and company-built community facilities. The collection documents the complete operations of a major, historic mining operation over four decades.
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Braun, E. Lucy (Emma Lucy), 1889-1971
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circa 1932-1940
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0.43 cu. ft. (1 12x17 box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7140
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.
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Ulrich, E. O. (Edward Oscar), 1857-1944
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circa 1880-1938 and undated
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4.26 cu. ft. (7 document boxes) (1 half document box) (1 3x5 box) (1 5x8 box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7332
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The 1879 act establishing the United States Geological Survey (USGS) declares, "And all collections of rocks, minerals, soils, and fossils, and objects of natural history, archaeology, and ethnology, made by the Coast and Interior Survey, the Geological Survey, or by any other parties for the Government of the United States, when no longer nee...
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American Petroleum Institute.
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1860s-1980s
bulk 1955-1990
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45 Cubic feet (122 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0711
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection includes historic photographs, slides and films on subjects relating to all aspects of the petroleum industry, including exploration, drilling, refineries, tankers, pipelines, automobiles, trucks, aviation, refueling, buildings, coal, gasification, plants, mining, surface mining, fields, land reclamation, coastal zone management, corporate public service, educational programs, crude oil, deepwater ports, and watercraft It also documents numerous products other than gasoline produced by the petroleum industry, such as propane, lubricants, heating oil, and plastics.
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Downs, Darian
Hall, Joseph Underwood Jr.
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undated
undated
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3 Cubic feet (12 boxes and 1 oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1317
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection primarily documents the personal life and medical career of Joseph Underwood Hall Jr. Hall was among the first to use the new X-ray technology and built his own X-ray machine.
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Stocksdale, Kay Sekimachi
Stocksdale, Bob
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circa 1900-2015
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19.5 Linear Feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.stockbob
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Archives of American Art
The papers of woodturner Bob Stocksdale and fiber artist Kay Sekimachi measure 19.5 linear feet and date from circa 1900 to 2015. Found are biographical materials, correspondence, writings, professional files, exhibition files, project files, personal business records, printed material, scrapbooks, photographic material, and artwork. Of note are records from Sekimachi's forced internment during World War II at Tanforan Assembly Center and Topaz War Relocation Center from 1942 to 1944.
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Warshaw, Isadore, d. 1969
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1825-1902
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0.47 Cubic feet (consisting of 1 box, 1 folder. )
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Geology
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Geology forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
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Butts, Charles, 1863-1946
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circa 1905-1946
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3 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7377
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The papers of Charles Butts document his career with the USGS and the VGS and his research on Appalachian geology and paleontology. They include a large file of incoming and outgoing correspondence with academic, government, and economic geologists and paleontologists. The letters concern his geological surveys of the Appalachian region, the ...